Woodall MSA

Woodall services is a motorway service station on the M1 motorway near Sheffield. It lies between junctions 30 and 31. It was opened in 1968 by Trust House Forte but was renamed Welcome Break after the takeover of the company. It takes its name from the nearby village of Woodall.

Woodall Services
Woodall MSA (South Yorkshire)
Information
CountySouth Yorkshire
RoadM1
Coordinates:53.31520°N 1.28130°W / 53.31520; -1.28130
OperatorWelcome Break
Date opened1968[1]
WebsiteWelcome Break

Facilities

Woodall is also one of the few service stations to have a Burger King, KFC and a McDonald's. The Northbound side has a McDonald's (open 24 hours) and a KFC, with the Southbound side having a Burger King and a KFC. Both sides of the service station are linked by footbridge. The services are very close to the Derbyshire border, but it's still classed as Sheffield. Woodall is one of two Welcome Break services which have a McDonald's; the other one is Fleet in Hampshire

The service station has 233 employees as of November 2019.[2]

This service area has proven to be very popular with coaches heading North and South because of the coach hosts there.

Layout

The MSA is accessible from both the Northbound and Southbound carriageways.

The MSA has murals by David Fisher in the 1990s, designed to reflect the local area and history.[3]

gollark: what's your intended use for this "debt toll" or whatever mode?
gollark: It would fail you at the slightest error but not say what the problem is.
gollark: You'd have to hand in a paper passport, disk based ID card, a visa, work permit...
gollark: Hmm, a papers please style gate for some random thing could be fun.
gollark: You're going to shove toll gates in front of people's bases for debt collection or something?

References

  1. "Motorway Services Trivia - Chronology". Retrieved 16 February 2009.
  2. "THE SMITH OF THE STAR: M1's services with a smile for 40 years". The Star. Retrieved 6 September 2009.
  3. "Murals and Commercial Commissions". Archived from the original on 25 October 2009. Retrieved 4 August 2020.
Next southbound:
Tibshelf
Motorway service stations on the
M1 motorway
Next northbound:
Woolley Edge
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